Shawn Bower
CISO And Head Of Enterprise Technology at The New York Times
Town of Big Flats, New York, United States
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Top SchoolShawn Bower is a seasoned cybersecurity and enterprise technology leader with 15 years of experience, currently serving as CISO and Head of Enterprise Technology at The New York Times after a rapid internal progression through engineering and security leadership roles. He blends hands-on DevOps, XML, and MySQL expertise with AWS-certified cloud security experience to harden large-scale digital platforms that support trusted journalism. Known for moving seamlessly between strategic leadership and technical execution, he has built security architecture and incident-ready teams from principal engineer to SVP level. Based in Big Flats, NY, Shawn’s background in mathematics and long tenure at two major institutions (Cornell and NYT) give him a disciplined, analytical approach to risk management and secure innovation. An uncommon strength is his track record of accelerating promotions through demonstrated delivery of measurable security improvements while keeping engineering velocity high.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mathematics, BS Mathematics at Commonwealth University-MansfieldAS Computer Science / Math Science, AS Computer Science / Math Science at Corning Community CollegeHorseheads High
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Github Skills (83)
activity-tracking10
vault9
jenkins-plugin9
fastly9
secrets8
authentication8
secret-management8
security7
serve7
encryption7
hashicorp-vault7
laravel7
api7
jenkins7
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
CU-CommunityApps/docker-base
Nov 2014 - Jul 2016
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes in 1 year 8 months
CU-CloudCollab/aws-examples
Aug 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:30 commits, 9 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 year 11 months
awssdkcli
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